Real Madrid owed percentage of Higuain fee

Gonzalo Higuain’s transfer to Juventus may have delighted fans in Turin, but the Real Madrid hierarchy also had a smile on their faces when the deal was announced as they will receive €2.25 million of the €90m fee.

Thanks to FIFA’s training compensation mechanism, Real Madrid are entitled to 2.5 percent of the transfer given that five percent of the fee must be distributed proportionally among the clubs to have trained the player between the ages of 12 and 23.

World football’s governing body outlines the breakdown of that reserved in Article 21 of its ‘Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players’ document.

Each club that owned a player between the ages of 12 and 15 receives 0.25 percent of the fee for each of those years, while 0.5 percent of the fee is given to a club for each season they trained the player between the ages of 16 and 23.

Since Los Blancos had the Argentine on their books between the ages of 19 and 23, they are due 2.5 percent of the Serie A record fee, which is €2.25m, the payment of which is the responsibility of Juventus.

“The club with which the player is registered is responsible for paying training compensation within 30 days of registration to every club with which the player has previously been registered and that has contributed to his training starting from the season of his 12th birthday,” states FIFA’s regulations.